Bjarne Stroustrup

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is a Distinguished Research Professor and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, is a visiting professor at Columbia University, and works at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in New York.